This painting evidently
evokes the refugee’s
journey from Dinkaland in southern Sudan
to northern Kenya.
Above, we see a traditional Dinka rural scene; below we see a Turkana
woman
wearing beads, from the area around the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern
Kenya.

That
would not be a village, because in a village, nobody can have a fence
around
the houses. In the village they have buildings like that, but there is
no fence
around them. If you want to build a fence it is to protect the farm and
not the
house.

This
website has
been developed by the Museums and Public Memory (Anth
159a) class taught by Professor Mark Auslander at Brandeis University.
Images have been reproduced with
the permission of the African Refugee Artists Club.